Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Those who abjure violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.